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- Obsess-O-Matic 1.0 by Wayne Phillips December, 1989
-
- Special thanks to: Lindsay Markus, Dave Owens, and Fred Werrell
- for their ideas and friendship.
-
- Obsess-O-Matic is a real-time puzzle game. The object
- is to fit the falling pieces together to form complete horizontal
- rows, which will then disappear off the bottom of the board. Once
- the pieces fill in and reach the top, the game is over.
- This Game is ShareWare...Please feel free to copy and give it
- to a friend or put it on any bulletin board. If you enjoy it, I would
- appreciate a donation very much. My address is:
-
- Wayne Phillips
- 1364 HiView Drive
- Southampton, Pa. 18966
-
- For a $10 donation, I will send you version 2.0 which
- will include:
-
- 1) Controllable board width & height (smaller board provides
- a greater challenge and earns extra bonus points)
- 2) Programmable starting height of blocks. (fills in random
- blocks to a given height. Provides a challenge and earns
- bonus points)
- 3) The Pile Driver Piece
- 4) Magnetic Walls
- 5) Vaccine Piece
- 6) Virus Piece
-
- For $15 dollars or more, I will send you version 3.0 which
- will, in addition to the above, include:
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- 1) Animated sprite special effects.
- 2) Graphic Puzzle Piece Editor to design your own
- puzzle piece sets.
- 3) Several piece sets to try.
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- * NOTE: *
- * A diskette/mailer will greatly speed the processing of your order *
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- Below is an explanation for the piece/game controls used in Obsess-O-Matic:
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- Puzzle Piece Controls: 4-LEFT 5-ROTATE 6-RIGHT
- 1-LEFT & DOWN 2-DOWN 3-RIGHT & DOWN
- SPACE BAR - FAST DROP
- Game Controls:
- Level: Raise/lower current play level - Max is 14, Min is 1
- Extra Pieces: Enables/disables new pieces in addition to standard
- set. Extra pieces start to appear at higher levels.
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- This also enables burning and exploding pieces which
- start to appear at levels 3 and greater.
-
- Special Effects: enables/disables special game processing features
- such as:
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- 1) Firestorm
- 2) Air Raid
- 3) Fast Piece Drop
- 4) Filler Pieces
- 5) Invisible Pieces
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- These special effects have a chance of appearing
- if one or more rows are dropped off the bottom of
- the screen.
-
- Show Next: Shows next piece to appear on screen - lowers point scores
- Reset High Score: Clears the high score to 0 (also saved to disk)
-
- NOTE: DISK MUST BE WRITE ENABLED!...High Score is also saved when
- game is exited.
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- Hints & Game Features:
- 1) Diagonal keys 1 & 3 may be used to fit pieces in odd places.
- 2) Dropping more than one row earns bonus points and a greater chance
- for special effects. 4 rows at once ALWAYS triggers an effect.
- 3) Sounds in the sounds directory may be changed to your liking, but file
- size of each MUST NOT exceed 10K. The rotating sound should be short.
- All sounds are in standard IFF format.
-
- SPECIAL NOTE:
- Please feel free to mail me your ideas for the improvement of this
- game or features that you would like added. Also, if you find any bugs
- I would appreciate hearing about them and I will fix them right away.
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- Running:
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- Obsess-O-Matic may be started either from the Workbench or the CLI.
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- Workbench: Double click the Obsess-O-Matic 1.0 Icon
-
- CLI: type the following command:
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- "Obsess-O-Matic 1.0" (Type the quotes!!)
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